poetry shld save the world

poetry shld save the world
like jesus, an amerikan president,
the anti-christ, democracy,

extraterrestrial beings. poetry
shld switch like light, like
sky, like weather. poetry shld

change eyeballs,
change brain-waves,
change the pulse of blood.

poetry shld explode,
implode, upload,
lift a road like a sheet

of stone & tar
cracking,
crumbling. poetry

shld shift
weights,
stagger, drop

eggs from clouds,
bomb bombs,
echo echo.

poetry shld
unzip
us,

ass
&
all. poetry shld

shoulder hard
against
the shuddering wall of time.

poetry shld tune
a chocolate viola, an
instantaneous piano.

poetry shld be
wonder,
yes, as wild as

biology,
physics,
& the unknown cosmos.

what poetry shld be
& what poetry is
is between the poet

& modern eternity.
hooks of relativity.
melting molecules.